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Post-Treatment Imaging

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Postoperative controls are required by the neurosurgeon, orthopedic, and interventional radiologist to check the result of surgery, position of implants, adequacy of decompression, fusion status, and potential complications. Moreover, because of medico-legal effects, it is important to assess if disease is not radically cured and to identify further possible clinical pathologies when the result does not correspond to expectations [1–5]. For optimal evaluation of the normal and abnormal postoperative imaging appearances, radiologists need an understanding of the various approaches, techniques, hardware, and devices used and a knowledge of their advantage and limitations. It is also necessary to integrate data imaging with clinical history, type of the underlying disease, surgical technique, type of biomedical device used, level, extension and date of the therapeutic procedure, examinations carried out before treatment (i.e., electromyography).

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    Umberto Tupputi, Michela Capuano & Tommaso Scarabino

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  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Ospedale L. Bonomo, Andria, Italy

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Tupputi, U., Capuano, M., Pollice, S., Scarabino, T. (2023). Post-Treatment Imaging. In: Scarabino, T., Pollice, S., Iaffaldano, G.C., Catapano, D. (eds) Imaging Spine After Treatment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42551-6_5

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